Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 - English literature |
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Page 2459
... once , whom it would not have shamed to have sat down at the cripples ' feast , and to have thrown in his benediction , aye , and his mite too , for a companionable symbol . " Age , thou hast lost thy breed . " Half of these stories ...
... once , whom it would not have shamed to have sat down at the cripples ' feast , and to have thrown in his benediction , aye , and his mite too , for a companionable symbol . " Age , thou hast lost thy breed . " Half of these stories ...
Page 2468
... once paid so dear . I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life reversed . I would no more alter them than the incidents of some well- contrived novel . Methinks it is better that I should have pined ...
... once paid so dear . I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life reversed . I would no more alter them than the incidents of some well- contrived novel . Methinks it is better that I should have pined ...
Page 2478
... once come out with some- thing so whimsical , yet so pertinent so brazen in its pretensions , yet so impossible to be denied so exquisitely good , and so de- plorably bad at the same time - that it has proved a Robin - Hood's shot ...
... once come out with some- thing so whimsical , yet so pertinent so brazen in its pretensions , yet so impossible to be denied so exquisitely good , and so de- plorably bad at the same time - that it has proved a Robin - Hood's shot ...
Page 2480
... once or twice , in earlier life , to assist at those ceremonies , we confess our curiosity abated . We are no longer ambitious of being the sun's courtiers , to attend at his morning levees . We hold the good hours of the dawn too ...
... once or twice , in earlier life , to assist at those ceremonies , we confess our curiosity abated . We are no longer ambitious of being the sun's courtiers , to attend at his morning levees . We hold the good hours of the dawn too ...
Page 2482
... once thought life to be something , but it has unaccountably fallen from us before . its time . Therefore we choose to dally with visions . The sun has no purposes of ours to light us to . Why should we get up ? Complete . Number XI ...
... once thought life to be something , but it has unaccountably fallen from us before . its time . Therefore we choose to dally with visions . The sun has no purposes of ours to light us to . Why should we get up ? Complete . Number XI ...
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Page 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Page 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Page 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Page 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Page 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Page 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...